A disgruntled employee fails to make the case against his old boss

Via Billy

 

During Thursday’s showdown Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, fired FBI Director James B. Comey came across as less as a fearless crusader for the truth and more as a disgruntled employee upset with the boss who unceremoniously let him go.

He deliberately shared his memos about his talks with President Trump with his friend Daniel Richman, a former FBI agent and Columbia Law School professor, explicitly hoping it would lead to the appointment of a special counsel, a ploy that succeeded brilliantly. The decision to share the sensitive memos is troubling because of Mr. Comey’s “unauthorized disclosure of privileged communications,” as Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, was quick to point out.

Strangely, Mr. Comey decided not to share that same memo with Attorney General Jeff Sessions or the acting deputy attorney general, holding his information close while waiting for the right moment to strike. He felt “defamed” by the Trump administration and took direct action against the president.

This was Mr. Comey’s personal revenge after losing his job.

More @ The Washington Times

New Orleans Mayor Hypes His Cultural Cleansing

 

Political correctness didn’t succeed as well as the Left had hoped it would because PC conflicts with the concept “two sides to every story.” National media only presents the side that bolsters its socio/poltical agenda, and it seems to think its opinions are widely accepted. But polls indicate that the public’s trust in media has sunk to one of its lowest levels. Alternative news sites are presenting the other side of the story and more people seek second opinions on news reports.

Currently, we are experiencing a serious “demographic, ideological, and cultural” divide in our nation. The Left thought the public had blithely accepted its “modernized”, one-sided revisionist history and so it didn’t expect the widespread opposition to the Confederate monument removals in New Orleans. The public apparently knows more about American history than the Left realizes.

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‘Failed Bitter Voices in Washington Will Do Everything in Their Power to Stop Us’ (VIDEO)

Via Billy

 

It’s James Comey Day in Washington DC–

The unpredictable former FBI Director testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Comey revealed many things during his public testimony. He told the Senate Intel Committee on Thursday that he asked a friend of his to leak to a memo he kept regarding his conversation with President Trump to the press.

James Comey even admitted that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch attempted to suppress/reframe the investigation into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s illegal private email server. AG Lynch purportedly directed Comey to immediately stop referring to the Hillary probe as an “investigation” or a “probe” and, instead, refer to it as a much more gentle “matter”.

More @ The Gateway Pundit

BOOM! Trump Attorney Kasowitz Catches Comey in Lie While Under Oath

Via Billy

Trump Attorney Mark Kasowitz told reporters today at the Washington Press Club that James Comey lied during testimony while under oath!

Comey 

FALSELY claimed he leaked private conversations because of Trump’s tweet — which wasn’t published until the following day after the leak!

Kasowitz: Comey testified that he only leaked the memos in response to a tweet. The public record reveals that The New York Times was quoting from those memos the day before the referenced tweet.

That’s perjury.

More @ The Gateway Pundit

Cleaned of encrustations, the CSS Hunley becomes a real submarine

Via Robert

 

For more than a century, the CSS Hunley rested at the bottom of the ocean just outside Charleston harbor, its crew entombed, its hull gradually encased in hardening encrustations.

When it was raised 15 years ago off South Carolina, it looked more like a barnacled sea monster than the world's first operational submarine, sunk in battle during the winter of 1864.

The remains of its eight sailors were removed in 2001, but research has continued, and Thursday, a conservation team announced that experts have now removed more than half a ton of the encrustations.

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St. Louis begins process to remove Confederate monument from Forest Park

Via Billy

There were protests at the monument Tuesday night in Forest Park. Wednesday, with no warning, workers set up a barricade around the Confederate monument to create a 50 foot perimeter. Workers then used a bucket truck to take down the Confederate drive street sign.

Koran Addo tells FOX 2 that this is the first step in removing the monument. Engineers will need to figure out the best way to take the monument down. This could take weeks to complete.

The city says it will cost between $100,000 - $130,000 to disassemble. It will be put into storage out of public view. The city says it's also open to public input on what to do with the monument.

More @ Fox

Dixieland: Southern Hospitality In Edgecombe County, NC

 

 

NC Senate Trolls the ‘Hypocritical’ Media By Making Paperboys Company Employees

Via Billy

 NC State Senator Trudy Wade 

“We appreciate our state’s news media for shedding light on the far-too-common practice of employee misclassification in North Carolina,” said Trudy Wade, a NC Republican, in a statement. “Surely the same industry that brought the problem to our attention will recognize this inconsistency between what they report and editorialize on and what they practice, and support this important reform to protect their own hard workers.”

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Why would North Carolina’s famously right wing legislature ever pass a bill increasing worker protections?

To troll the media, of course.

After the Charlotte Observer and sister paper the Raleigh News & Observer (both despised by the legislature) published an investigation on the misclassification of construction workers, the GOP-controlled State Senate — after pointing out the typical media dissonance between its advocacy journalism and own corporate practices — passed legislation requiring newspapers to classify newspaper carriers as  staff employees with benefits.

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Christian Genocide in Syria: The Works of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, & the Muslim Brotherhood

Via Mike

In my April 12 Tribune Papers (NC) and Times Examiner (SC) article I asked: “What about the 1.7 million Christians in Syria?” In my May 10 article, I summarized the Armenian and Greek genocides perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and Nationalist Turkish regimes from 1900 to
1923 that killed 3.5 to 4.3 million Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, Maronite, and other Christians.

I knew when I wrote these articles that the number of Syrian Christians had certainly been reduced from 1.7 million by the savage attrition of ISIS and Al-Qaeda’s several affiliates in Syria and by the exodus of those fleeing the economic devastation and acute suffering and dangers of civil war. Two big questions are how many Syrian Christians are left in Syria and what has been their fate of the rest?  The third big question is what will be the fate of the Christians remaining in Syria, if the predominantly radical Sunni Muslim rebels take power? The answer to the third question is obvious to those who know the tenets of salafist (fundamentalist and revivalist) Sunni Islam. The Christians along with their moderate Alawite Shia Muslim allies and other minorities must flee, convert to fundamentalist Islam, or die.

More @ The Tribune

Music from the Lake

 The Abbeville Institute

A review of Music from the Lake and Other Essays by Catharine Savage Brosman (Chronicles Press, 2017).

Catharine Savage Brosman is a treasure of Southern literature.  Although much of her work shows her solid Colorado Rocky Mountain upbringing, somehow I do not think she will mind being placed in Southern literature.  Most of her career was spent in New Orleans and she now lives in Houston.  More importantly, her depth of perception and her pietas toward Creation show a spirit akin to the greatest Southern writers.

Brosman resembles the Southern greats in another way.  Like Poe, Simms, Warren, Garrett, Chappell, Berry,  she is not only marvelously productive but also marvelously versatile—poetry, essays, and literary criticism and history.  While she is distinguished  as poet and essayist,  her  scholarship in French literature  (as Professor of French at Tulane) is of an amount and quality that  puts 99 per cent of the current American professoriate to shame.  (Although these days such achievement  is  likely  to provoke disguised resentment rather than respect.)

Further for my Southern argument:  Brosman’s books that immediately precede Music from the Lake are Louisiana Creole Literature:  A Historical Study and Southwestern Women Writers and the Vision of Goodness.  I rest my case except to say that it has long been my fancy that Southerners are French and Yankees are German.  If that is so, there is no doubt where she fits.

Music in the Lake and Other Essays is a wonderful exercise in civilized discourse,  reminiscent  of the great quarterlies of earlier times.  It  gracefully bestows on the reader an experience  that is at the same time  serious and   entertaining.   Personal experiences and reflections accompany  great  learning lightly worn and inimitable discussions of the decline of contemporary culture. The multiple aspects of that decline may be said to be the theme of the work.

I have read and do read far too many books. But I am happy indeed that this one did not pass me by.